The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has appointed Nottingham Law School (NLS) to deliver CPS solicitor apprenticeships across the North of England.

Dame Ingrid Simler has become a justice of the UK Supreme Court, following Lord Kitchin’s retirement. Simler is the fifth woman to hold this role since 2009, when the court was set up in its current format, and was sworn in as a new justice of the UK Supreme Court last week. 

Norton Rose has announced an impending merger with US firm Fulbright & Jaworski, which is set to be completed on 1 June 2013.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has announced that non-practising solicitors will need to pay a £20 charge to stay on the roll from next year. The change will affect around 60,000 non-practising solicitors who are already on the roll.

The legal profession had its biggest turnout yet at the London Legal Walk earlier in May.

Subsequent to the Internet 2.0 with the rise of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, the new revivification of the Internet will be the emergence of the Internet of Value.

The Solicitor’s Qualifying Exam (SQE) has essentially revolutionised the way you qualify as a solicitor.

What is the impact of economic sanctions being placed on Russia on clients in the United States, European Union and Japan?

The Direct Line Group has revealed its intention to branch into legal services, with an application for alternative business structure status set to be submitted before the new year.

BAME candidates are still much less likely to secure pupillage than white students, while those who attended fee-paying schools remain disproportionately represented, according to the latest annual report from the Bar Standards Board.

The Legal Aid Agency has been criticised for adding to funding problems which have created “advice deserts” around the UK by setting a maximum £35 case fee for immigration telephone advisers.

The Law Society has launched its 2017-18 mentoring scheme, designed to support solicitors from under-represented groups to progress their careers and improve diversity within the profession.

What impact will the recent changes to the taxation of foreign domiciliaries have on the UK economy?

Who has applied for a new gTLD and why?

Bond Dickinson LLP has won the ‘Newcomer Large Employer of the Year’ award at the National Apprenticeship Awards for its ground-breaking efforts in the legal apprenticeship space.

Global legal business DWF Group Plc is set to buy the US legal service business Mindcrest in a deal worth $14.2 billion.

In the wake of recent discussion over whether to implement aptitude tests for postgraduate law courses, the chair of the Bar Standards Board Baroness Deech has said that many who take the BPTC are "wasting their money" because they are "not up to it".

Mortgage fraud: will a falling property market usher in a new wave of professional negligence claims?

I’m in my 40s and thinking about retraining as a solicitor, but is there any point? I have heard that recruitment focuses on young graduates.